Research

Arcata - Dr. Ronald A. Fritzsche, an alum ('67) and Professor of Fisheries Biology Emeritus at Humboldt State University, is one of 18 scientists worldwide and the only one from the U.S. west coast invited to a key conference in London in January to evaluate the marine fish species on the international endangered list.

Humboldt State University students, along with school administration, staff and faculty members, collected and donated 950 pounds of food during this year’s HSU Holiday Food Drive to support the efforts of Food for People, Humboldt County’s food bank.

Arcata – Humboldt State University’s Career Center has more than doubled student placement salaries in 2008 with a grand total of $2.17 million generated by 503 local jobs.

Assistant Professors Mark Baker and Noah Zerbe, both recognized experts in their fields, were each sought out to present their research at international academic symposiums over the past month.

Arcata - Humboldt State University Professor Emeritus Sam Oliner, an internationally recognized author, peace ambassador and founder of the Altruistic Personality & Prosocial Institute, has been awarded the 2008 Humboldt County Peacemaker Prize by the Eureka Interfaith Fellowship.

Arcata - Combating poverty’s blight on Redwood Coast health care requires comprehensive child coverage and ensuring that youngsters have medical and dental ‘homes,’ according to a survey by the California Center for Rural Policy (CCRP) at Humboldt State University.

The same waves locals ride to shore at well-known surf spots like Houda Point may also hold the answer to rising energy costs.

Nine HSU Students, along with Geography Professor Tony Rossi, are currently on a six week trip across Tibet as part of the GEOG 411 Senior Field Research course.

As part of of the 15th annual Day of Caring, nearly 500 Humboldt State University students, staff and faculty, local citizens and AmeriCorps members contributed a sum total of more than 1,200 hours of service at over 30 different sites in our community.

Arcata – Humboldt State University student investigative reporters are cited for excellence in the current issue of Quill, the magazine published by the Society of Professional Journalists that follows news industry developments.

Arcata - Humboldt State University undergraduate Rani Ram, winner of a $3,000 William Randolph Hearst/California State University (CSU) Trustees Award for Outstanding Achievement, spent the summer in a primate field study in Costa Rica under the auspices of HSU’s Department of Anthropology.

Arcata - Dr. Lori Dengler, Professor and Chair of Humboldt State University’s Department of Geology and the University’s 2008 Scholar of Year, will present a free lecture on Monday, Sept. 29, at 5:00 p.m. in Van Duzer Theatre.

Arcata - Four Humboldt State University students, one from Redding, have been awarded $6,500 each in Dale M. Schoettler Scholarships that assist blind and visually impaired students across the California State University system.

Humboldt State University’s new hydrogen fueling facility is the first rural station on California’s ‘Hydrogen Highway,’ and a crucial link between renewable energy and transportation fuel that started with a handful of engineering students.

Peter Johnstone and Kristen Radecsky set out before dusk everyday for a month to walk through Kenya’s marketplaces. The two Environmental Systems graduate students were busy collecting data on kerosene lamps and collaborating with Kenyans on a safer, more economical alternative.

Champ Ferguson is such an intriguing Civil War character—guerrilla, slave owner, cold-blooded killer—it’s hard to believe he’s been nearly forgotten by history. A new book by Professor Thomas Mays, a historian at Humboldt State University, looks to breathe life back into a story that once gripped the nation’s attention.

There’s no question about it: Sue Woodstra knows volleyball. Woodstra, Humboldt State head coach and assistant coach for the U.S. Olympic Women’s Indoor Volleyball Team, recently helped lead Team USA back to the medal stand for the first time in 16 years. The national squad brought home the silver from the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, matching its best-ever finish.

When examining ideas like world ecological degradation and an impending dark age it’s comforting to know there’s still a flickering light of hope at the end of the tunnel.

The Campus Center for Appropriate Technology (CCAT), Humboldt State’s demonstration home for sustainable living, recently sent former co-director, Jeffrey Steuben to accept its award for Best Practices in Student Sustainability Program for the California State University (CSU).

Arcata - Rebecca Menten, a Humboldt State graduate student in the Energy, Environment and Society program, has been awarded a prestigious Switzer Environmental Fellowship worth $15,000.

Arcata — Nearly half of the Redwood Coast's uninsured residents are unable to receive needed health care, reports Humboldt State University’s California Center for Rural Policy (CCRP) in its August Research Brief. The report also notes those with Medi-Cal, California’s state run medical assistance program, are more than twice as likely to seek care in an emergency room than those with private insurance.

Arcata - Summer interns at Humboldt State University give high fives to an intensive computer science design program for bachelor’s candidates. They find it solid ground work for graduate school and the job market.

Arcata - Four area students, all of them Native American, have won 2008 Gates Millennium Scholarships and all but one will attend Humboldt State University this fall.

Arcata — After spending a semester working hand-in-hand with 15 classmates, students from the Journalism & Mass Communications Department's Investigative Reporting class are receiving kudos for the thoughtful and thorough work they did covering an extremely sensitive topic.

More than 20 HSU geography majors, accompanied by department chair Joe Leeper, professors Joy Adams, Stephen Cunha, Dennis Fitzsimons and Chris Hayne, attended the California Geographic Society's 62nd annual Conference. Adams chaired a panel discussion on “Strategies for Mentoring and Supporting Female Students and Faculty,” along with geography students Anna Leeper, Diana Muncy, Corinne Cogger and Angela Crane. Adams was also elected to the CGS board of directors. Leeper presented “Challenges Confronting Humboldt County Agriculture” and Cunha presented “The Changing Face of Vietnam.”